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Active Accretion
Topic: Modeling Solar System Objects
Grade Level: 5-8
Body: Our Solar System
Short Description: Students act as dust grains that come together to model early planet formation by the process of accretion in our solar system.
Aerogello
Topic: Solar System Exploration
Grade Level: 5-8
Body: Comets
Mission: Stardust (Comets)
Short Description: Participants simulate and observe the collection of particles substituting gelatin for the aerogel. Aerogel is a silica dioxide gel with the lowest density solid known used on STARDUST to collect comet and interstellar dust particles.
Alka-Seltzer Rockets
Topic: Modeling Solar System Objects
Grade Level: 5-8
Body: Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Asteroids, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Comets, Kuiper Belt & Oort Cloud, Earth's Moon
Short Description: Using baking soda and vinegar, propel an object across the floor to introduce the idea of how things move through space.
All About Ice
Grade Level: K-4
Short Description: In this suite of activities, students investigate ice, learn about its properties and explore how it can change states to a liquid or a gas. Through hands-on experiences, they observe ice, find its melting and freezing point, and learn about some of its unique properties, including that ice, the solid phase of water, is less dense than the liquid!
An Ocean Below Enceladus' Icy Crust
Grade Level: 9-12
Mission: Cassini (Saturn)
Short Description: This four-slide powerpoint by the Division of Planetary Science includes basic information for college-level introductory courses.
Analyzing Elemental Abundances
Grade Level: 9-12
Body: Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Asteroids, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Comets, Kuiper Belt & Oort Cloud
Mission: Genesis (Our Solar System)
Short Description: Participants will practice and understand the use of ratios in describing the abundances of isotopes.
Annotating Change in Satellite Images
Grade Level: 9-12
Short Description: This activity walks users through a technique for documenting change in before-and-after sets of satellite images. The technique can be used for any set of time-series images that are spatially registered to show the exact same area at the same scale
Antenna Activity
Topic: Communication
Body: Saturn
Short Description: Demonstrates how signals are focused.
Are We Related? Looking for Patterns in Planetary Diversity
Grade Level: 9-12
Body: Our Solar System
Mission: Genesis (Our Solar System)
Short Description: In this activity, students use measurements (and results of calculations involving these measurements) regarding the planets' physical and chemical characteristics. They will start with some of the most universally accepted planetary data. Students will also be working with information that is often presented as known facts when, indeed, those "facts" may be conclusions based on limited basic data. Students should be encouraged to look for their own methods of grouping or "patterning."
Asteroid Resources (Edible Asteroid Mining)
Topic: Solar System Exploration
Grade Level: 5-8
Body: Asteroids
Mission: Dawn (Dwarf Planets)
Short Description: Participants map and core an edible asteroid. This is part of a sequence that explores the potential resources available to space travelers.
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